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福島県 · Art & museums

Aizu Sazaedo

会津若松市会津

A wooden double helix where those climbing and those descending never meet - a structure with almost no parallel.

福島県 · Art & museums

Tsuruga Castle

会津若松市会津

The only castle keep in Japan roofed in red tiles - glazed to survive the Aizu frost.

福島県 · Art & museums

Aizu Samurai Residence

会津若松市会津

A 38-room chief retainer's mansion reconstructed, showing how rank was expressed in space.

福島県 · Art & museums

Aizu Lacquerware

会津若松市会津

Begun when Gamo Ujisato brought lacquerers from Omi; known for auspicious motifs and sprinkled gold.

福島県 · Art & museums

Akabeko and Aizu Papier-mache

会津若松市会津

A red papier-mache ox with a nodding head, made to ward off plague - the colour itself is the charm.

福島県 · Art & museums

Aizu Hongo Ware

会津美里町会津

One of Tohoku's oldest pottery districts, and rare in firing both earthenware and porcelain.

福島県 · Art & museums

Shojoji

湯川村会津

Three National Treasure sculptures of the early Heian period - proof the capital's style reached this far north by the 800s.

福島県 · Art & museums

Shiramizu Amidado

いわき市浜通り

Fukushima's only National Treasure building, raised by a daughter of the Hiraizumi Fujiwara and designed with its reflection in mind.

福島県 · Art & museums

Iwaki City Art Museum

いわき市浜通り

A pioneering case of a regional city collecting contemporary art, strong in American work of its own era.

福島県 · Art & museums

Kusano Shimpei Memorial Museum

いわき市浜通り

A museum for the frog poet, stretched along a ridge so the view becomes part of the display.

福島県 · Art & museums

Koriyama City Museum of Art

郡山市中通り

Unusually for Japan, built around British modern art, on a hill facing Mt Adatara.

福島県 · Art & museums

Oyama Chusaku Museum

二本松市中通り

The personal museum of a Nihonga painter and Order of Culture laureate, born in this castle town.

福島県 · Art & museums

Chieko Memorial Museum

二本松市中通り

The paper collages Chieko Takamura cut during her illness, shown in her family's sake brewery.

福島県 · Art & museums

Nihonmatsu Chrysanthemum Dolls

二本松市中通り

Life-size figures clothed in living chrysanthemums, which keep blooming and changing through the show.

福島県 · Art & museums

Tsuburaya Eiji Museum

須賀川市中通り

In the home town of the man behind Godzilla and Ultraman, showing miniature-making as a craft.

福島県 · Art & museums

Sukagawa Taimatsu Akashi

須賀川市中通り

Thirty torches ten metres tall and three tonnes each, built from bamboo and straw, then set alight.

福島県 · Art & museums

Miharu Papier-mache

郡山市中通り

Four workshops making Miharu horses in the same hamlet since the 1700s.

福島県 · Art & museums

Kitakata Storehouses

喜多方市会津

Over 4,000 storehouses in a town of 50,000 - some built as living rooms, not storage.

福島県 · Art & museums

Kumano Shrine Nagatoko

喜多方市会津

A hall of 44 pillars and a roof, with no walls at all - Heian architecture at its most open.

福島県 · Art & museums

Ouchi-juku

下郷町会津

A post town of thatched houses lining the old highway, its power lines buried to keep the Edo view.

福島県 · Art & museums

Karamushi Textile Village

昭和村会津

A village that grows, strips, spins and weaves ramie - the fibre behind Niigata's finest hemp cloth.

福島県 · Art & museums

Okuaizu Museum

南会津町会津

Household tools of the deep Aizu mountains, designated an Important Tangible Folk Cultural Property.

福島県 · Art & museums

Hinoemata Kabuki

檜枝岐村会津

A village of 500 has staged its own kabuki for 270 years, the audience seated on stone steps.

福島県 · Art & museums

Tenkyokaku

猪苗代町会津

An imperial prince's Renaissance-style villa above Lake Inawashiro, its original furniture intact.